Had to google this thing. Why don't people just buy nice toys and some good chocolate for their kids. Are these things some kind of punishment that you just can't fully understand without being German? Like schadenfreude or fecal worship?

borg:No you don't. There are no stores legally selling Kinder eggs in the Untied States. They sell other Kinder products but not the eggs.

No, they sell eggs here, albiet against the law. you wont find them in a chain supermarket or any such shop, but small, independent delis/bodegas just might have them. In facr, there is a deli two blocks from my office that sells them. Think i will get one tomorrow, so thanks for the reminder! Its been a while.

Seriously? He worked "late" on this project? 15 minutes, tops. This is not news-worthy, even for the "feelings" crowd.

For a SO, I once bought a sealed Riverdance CD and inserted two Orchestra tickets to the Broadway show. She never figured out how I did that one. Same girl, I pinholed a dozen eggs; blew out the whites and yolks; washed, dried, and dyed them; and inserted tiny paper scrolls with a different "special date night" promise inscribed. Told her to open one a month.

My current SO, just before taking her comp exams, I gave a candy "tree," dozens of each type of her favorite mini candy bars individually glued to styrafoam in a tree shape and "planted" in a weighted flowerpot.

None of which is newsworthy either, but all of which is way more than what this guy did. No humble in my brag....

brimed03:Seriously? He worked "late" on this project? 15 minutes, tops. This is not news-worthy, even for the "feelings" crowd.

For a SO, I once bought a sealed Riverdance CD and inserted two Orchestra tickets to the Broadway show. She never figured out how I did that one. Same girl, I pinholed a dozen eggs; blew out the whites and yolks; washed, dried, and dyed them; and inserted tiny paper scrolls with a different "special date night" promise inscribed. Told her to open one a month.

My current SO, just before taking her comp exams, I gave a candy "tree," dozens of each type of her favorite mini candy bars individually glued to styrafoam in a tree shape and "planted" in a weighted flowerpot.

None of which is newsworthy either, but all of which is way more than what this guy did. No humble in my brag....

trappedspirit:Had to google this thing. Why don't people just buy nice toys and some good chocolate for their kids. Are these things some kind of punishment that you just can't fully understand without being German? Like schadenfreude or fecal worship?

Remember when cracker jacks had good toys, or quaker oats had the figurines? It's sort of that - I have a collection on my desk, and you'd be surprised at how often my co-workers and I end up playing with them.

It's the same sort of thing - cool little surprises that you have to put together, and sometimes have mix and match parts.

That's pretty cool. I would assume he froze the egg to be able to get the chocolate apart without mangling it too much. I will say though that the chocolate from those eggs were pretty meh, but some of the toys were pretty cool. I remember some of my buddies that were stationed in Germany with me had entire collections of the toys from those things.

LemSkroob:borg:No you don't. There are no stores legally selling Kinder eggs in the Untied States. They sell other Kinder products but not the eggs.

No, they sell eggs here, albiet against the law. you wont find them in a chain supermarket or any such shop, but small, independent delis/bodegas just might have them. In facr, there is a deli two blocks from my office that sells them. Think i will get one tomorrow, so thanks for the reminder! Its been a while.

Why do you hate America?

Quantum Apostrophe:borg: Good. Kids won't choke to death at their next school shooting. I feel better already.

Don't forget the apocalypse we avoided by banning bucky balls. Godless death traps.

brimed03:Seriously? He worked "late" on this project? 15 minutes, tops. This is not news-worthy, even for the "feelings" crowd.

For a SO, I once bought a sealed Riverdance CD and inserted two Orchestra tickets to the Broadway show. She never figured out how I did that one. Same girl, I pinholed a dozen eggs; blew out the whites and yolks; washed, dried, and dyed them; and inserted tiny paper scrolls with a different "special date night" promise inscribed. Told her to open one a month.

My current SO, just before taking her comp exams, I gave a candy "tree," dozens of each type of her favorite mini candy bars individually glued to styrafoam in a tree shape and "planted" in a weighted flowerpot.

None of which is newsworthy either, but all of which is way more than what this guy did. No humble in my brag....

As stupid as the ban is you may as well ban peanut M&Ms. Small children may choke on the peanut and die or be allergic to the peanut and die. I'm willing to bet that more small children in the US die from choking on gravel than all the kids in the rest of the world that die from kinder eggs.

/are our small children really that much more retarded when compared to the rest of the world?//a child small enough to choke on the toy would probably not be strong enough to open the capsule///maybe someone should start an online petition to get these unbanned, or a hashtag #icutforkindereggs

brimed03:Seriously? He worked "late" on this project? 15 minutes, tops. This is not news-worthy, even for the "feelings" crowd.

Yeah, he just made a custom plastic toy figure that holds a ring while on one knee, made graphic instructions to go with it, and then inserted it into a chocolate egg. Anyone can do that in 15 minutes.

brimed03:Seriously? He worked "late" on this project? 15 minutes, tops. This is not news-worthy, even for the "feelings" crowd.

For a SO, I once bought a sealed Riverdance CD and inserted two Orchestra tickets to the Broadway show. She never figured out how I did that one. Same girl, I pinholed a dozen eggs; blew out the whites and yolks; washed, dried, and dyed them; and inserted tiny paper scrolls with a different "special date night" promise inscribed. Told her to open one a month.

My current SO, just before taking her comp exams, I gave a candy "tree," dozens of each type of her favorite mini candy bars individually glued to styrafoam in a tree shape and "planted" in a weighted flowerpot.

None of which is newsworthy either, but all of which is way more than what this guy did. No humble in my brag....

You made a favor coupon book out of eggs? You should be the one getting married to the kinder egg guy.